Colin Carberry is a poet and literary translator who was born in Toronto, raised in Lanesboro, Co. Longford, Ireland. He has travelled widely throughout the Caribbean and Central America and lived for a number of years in Mexico.

He is the author of Ceasefire in Purgatory (Luna Publications) and The Green Table (Exile Editions); a limited-edition chapbook, The Crossing (Bearing Press); and he has translated two volumes of poetry, Weekly Diary and Poems in Prose and Adam and Eve (Exile Editions), from the Spanish of the great Mexican poet Jaime Sabines.

Colin has given readings and talks at libraries, literary festivals, colleges and universities in Canada, Ireland, and the United States. His work has appeared in numerous journals, newspapers and anthologies including The Antigonish Review, Exile: The Literary Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Poetry Ireland Review, Line by Line: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry (Ekstasis Editions), Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets (Biblioasis), and has been translated into Serbo-Croat and Spanish. He and his wife Veronica are co-organizers of the Toronto Small Press Group, and live in Toronto.
 
For further information, and bookings for events, interviews, workshops, and/or readings, contact:

Colin Carberry
218 Sorauren Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6R 2E9
Canada

E-mail: carberrycolin@hotmail.com